Development of e-learning website to teach critical-thinking skills.
Critical Thinking Cap (CTC) is an e‑learning website offering informal lessons and activities on discerning, developing, and deploying critical thinking skills. It will guide adult learners through a fun, casual critical-thinking course inspired by the principles of microlearning.
CTC will provide learners an inviting and engaging space to learn and practice critical thinking skills at their own pace at their convenience, without having to enroll in a weighty, bland, or expensive college course.
The website was built using WordPress and the LearnDash LMS plug-in.
CTC was a capstone project for the Digital Media Design graduate (master’s) program at Harvard Extension School. It continues to be a work in progress.
Visit the website at https://www.criticalthinkingcap.com/.
Below you will find the project's original proposal document, a link to the project's blog, and some screenshots of the website.
Skills and technologies applied
Instructional design • Research • Curation • Writing and editing • Web design • Web development • Creating websites with content management systems (Wordpress) • Deploying learning management systems • Brand development • HTML & CSS • Technical writing • Image research
Background and production information
View / download the proposal (PDF): Contains project goals, target audience, personae, empathy maps, user journeys, competitor reviews, technology requirements, etc.
Visit Project notes: Critical Thinking Cap (All notes technical, creative, administrative, etc.)
A few screen shots
